Piper PA-24-250 N6249P
19 August 2006 · Auburn, Washington, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 19 August 2006 at about 02:05 local time, a Piper PA-24-250 registered N6249P was involved in an accident near Auburn, Washington, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 02:05
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Auburn, Washington, United States
- Nearest airport
- Auburn Municipal Airport (S50)
- Coordinates
- 47.3278, -122.2267
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-24-250
- Registration
- N6249P
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Astoria → Auburn
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- SEA06LA166
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Probable cause
The failure of the landing gear's normal retraction/extension assembly due to an overload condition.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
After taking off and determining that the landing gear would not retract properly, and believing that the gear was in the down and locked position, the pilot elected to proceed to the destination airport. After touching down and rolling out on the main landing gear wheels, the nose landing gear was then lowered onto the runway's surface. After the nose landing gear contacted the runway all three landing gear retracted. A post-accident examination of the airplane revealed that the landing gear retraction motor had separated from its rear bulkhead attachment. The component's rivets were fractured in the contact surface plane, with deformation and smeared features observed to be consistent with overstress. It could not be determined when the overstress event occurred.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Mar 2006 | Piper PA-24 | El Cajon, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 4 Mar 2006 | Piper PA-24 | La Vern, California, United States | Howard Belzberg | No injuries | - |
| 12 Oct 2006 | Piper PA-24-260 | Osage Beach, Missouri, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 20 Jun 2006 | Piper PA-24-250 | Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 24 Oct 2006 | Piper PA-24-250 | Sherman, Illinois, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 30 Mar 2006 | Piper PA-24-250 | Mammoth Lake, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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